US Patent Issued to Roku on July 14 for "Smart switch with functionalities determined based on a grounded conductor connection" (Canadian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,514, issued on July 14, was assigned to Roku Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Smart switch with functionalities determined based on a grounded conductor connection" was invented by Gregory Mack Garner (Springdale, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are system, apparatus, article of manufacture, method, and computer program product embodiments for modifying the functionality of an alternating current (AC) controlling device. An example computer-implemented method includes determining whether an electrical terminal of an AC controlling device is connected to a grounded conductor. In response to determining that the electri...